Portsmouth 4 - 2 Palace

Sat Sep 15 2001 - League

Palace suffered their third league defeat on the spin and put in another poor defensive performance, losing 4-2 away to Portsmouth.
Portsmouth took an early lead through Alessandro Zamperini. The Italian scored from a Robert Prosinecki cross, which deflected off a Palace defender into his path.

Only five minutes later, the score was level again, when Simon Rodger sidefooted the ball into the roof of the net after being set up by Clinton Morrison.

On 38 minutes, it was the Croatian Prosinecki who found the net. Mark Burchill was fouled on the edge of the area by Dean Austin and Prosinecki curled a fantastic free-kick into the top left-hand corner.

In injury time, the Croat tried it again from a free kick, but the attempt was well saved by keeper Matt Clarke.

After the interval, Palace went looking for the equaliser, but it was Pompey who scored. It was Burchill scoring from the penalty spot after Jamie Smith had upended Pitt in the penalty area.